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The Good Place
The Good Place
Aurelija Gardžiulytė
The genre
Comedy
Philosophical fiction
Fantasy
The creator
Michael Schur – was
born in 1975.He is an
American television
producer, writer and
actor, best known for
his work on
the NBC comedy
series The
Office (2005–
2013), Parks and
Recreation (2009–2015)
The setting
Everythingis set in the afterlife, a highly
selective Heaven-like utopia designed, as a
reward for her righteous life.
The plot
After her death, Eleanor Shellstrop is welcomed to her afterlife in "The
Good Place" (opposed to "The Bad Place") by Michael, an immortal
architect who built a specifically designed afterlife community that strives
to accommodate everyone's specific tastes. Michael introduces Eleanor to
Janet, an artificial intelligence that serves as a guide and repository of
knowledge and can produce anything asked for out of thin air, and her
assigned soulmate, a university ethics professor named Chidi Anagonye.
Eleanor tells Chidi that she has been mistaken for someone else and he
agrees to teach Eleanor to become a better person to earn her place for
real. Her neighbor is introduced to her as a silent Buddhist monk named
Jianyu Li, whose soulmate is socialite Tahani Al-Jamil. Jianyu reveals that
he is actually a DJ from Florida named Jason Mendoza, who also believes
he has been sent to The Good Place by mistake. As Chidi continues to
teach Eleanor and then Jason ethics lessons, Tahani tries to work out a
way in which Eleanor and Jason can be allowed to stay in The Good Place.
When those efforts prove fruitless, an eternal judge named Shawn rules
that Eleanor and Jason must be sent to the Bad Place ...
Cast and characters
Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop
Eleanor Shellstrop, a
deceased salesperson
from Arizona who
entered an
afterlife utopia called
"The Good Place"
seemingly after being
mistaken for a human
rights lawyer by the
same name.
William Jackson Harper as Chidi Anagonye
Chidi Anagonye, a
deceased ethics
professor who was
born in Nigeria and
raised
in Senegal and
Eleanor's alleged
soulmate.
Jameela Jamil as Tahani Al-Jamil